"I Want You to Know" by Zedd f/Selena Gomez (Interscope) is a friggin' monster. The track jumped 186 spots to #15 on the Shazam USA Top 100 Tags Chart this week, making it the greatest gainer by a considerable margin. DCD2/Island's Fall Out Boy, meanwhile, saw a 135-spot gain...

The brand new, as-yet unnamed label co-founded by SONGS Publishing’s Matt Pincus and Ron Perry and industry vet Barry Weiss is now underway, with Weiss spending his first day in the office this week. The company is still lining up distribution (rumors that Sony had locked that down were unfounded), but has hired Christine Chiappetta to handle Alternative and Triple A promotion—and is looking for a Pop/Rhythm radio specialist. Stay tuned.

THE FACE OF RECORD STORE DAY 2015

3/3/15

The fit couldn’t be more perfect. Dave Grohl has been named Record Store Day Ambassador for 2015. Grohl expresses his love for brick-and-mortar music retail in two ways: recollecting in front of a film camera and taking pen to paper

We’re getting our collective game face on for the first New & Developing Artist Special Issue of 2015, which will be printed on high-quality paper stock (disguising the third-rate editorial content, as usual) next week.

My Morning Jacket’s seventh full-length, The Waterfall, will be released on May 4 via a somewhat different label configuration: ATO/Capitol. The album was recorded in Stinson Beach Calif., with producer/engineer Tucker Martine, who helmed the previous LP, 2011’s Circuital.

Andrew W.K. and Deepak Chopra having an in-depth conversation about the divine, consciousness and the nature of reality? We'd read that. Now you can too. The pair share their insights (spoiler alert: "We're all God in drag having a party") in a delightfully mind-bending exchange on the Paper website.